Legal Opinion
Potter v. Murray City
District Court, D. Utah
Decided April 27, 1984No. C-83-0174CPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION ON MOTIONS
CHRISTENSEN, Senior District Judge.
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
This case involves a civil rights claim for damages and declaratory and injunctive relief by a former police officer of Murray City who alleges that the termination of his employment because of his practice of plural marriage violated his right to the free exercise of his religion as protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, contrary to the provisions of 42 United States Code § 1983.
Monetary damages are sought against the City, its Chief of Police, and the…
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